Lever for operating trunk-trays



No. 609,563. Patented Aug. 23, I898. P. H. SMITH. LEVER FOR OPERATINGTRUNK TRAYS.

(Application filed Nov. 27, 1897.)

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LEVER FOR OPERATING TRUNK-TRAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent no. 609,563, dated. August23, 1898. Application filed November 27, 1897. Serial No. 659,950. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL I-I. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Levers for OperatingTrunk- Trays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my present invention is to provide an improvedconstruction of lever for operating a tray or trays in such a trunk asis shown in my application for Letters Pat ent of the United Statesfiled April 2, 1897, Serial No 630,400.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an end of atrunk, showing a lever chamber or compartment, the lever being indicatedby dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on a planeindicated by the line a; 00, Fig. 1, showing in elevation the inner sideof the end of the trunk with the tray-operating lever in position; andFig. 3 is a perspective view of the upper end of the fulcrumed part ofthe lever.

Like characters of reference in the several views indicate correspondingparts.

1 designates the lower or pivoted part of the lever, which is preferablypivoted or fulcrumed near the bottom of the trunk upon a pin 1,extending between the end wall of the trunk and the transverse partitionthat forms, in connection with said end wall, the levercompartment. Theupper end of this pivoted part of the lever has a socket portion 2, thatis open in the upper part of its rear side, as indicated at 2, andclosed or solid at its front side, as indicated at 2", while the sidewalls of the said socket portion are made with I'- shaped slots 2 openat their lower ends. The extensible part 3 of the lever consists simplyof a fiat bar of the same cross-section as the opening of the socketportion, so as to be freely movable in said socket longitudinally withrespect to the pivoted part 1 of the lever, and the said extensible parthas at its upper end a handle 3 and in its lower enda pin 3, thatprojects laterally from both sides of the exthe trunk. When thelever-handle is thus drawn toward the front of the trunk, it will standoutward and possibly in the way of the user, and with the constructionshown the extensible part of the lever may be further lifted in thesocket until the pin 3 shall stand opposite the'small divergent part ofthe slots,- When it may be placed rearwardly to lie in the positionindicated bybroken lines, Fig. 2.

The cord 4, which runs from the tray or tray-supporting devices, may beattached to the lever by means of a tension device, substantially asexplained in my aforesaid application for patent.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.1. In a trunk of the kind described, a trayelevating lever comprising apivoted part, and a handled part sliding longitudinally with respect toand parallel to said pivoted part, and means, substantially asdescribed, permitting said sliding part to be turned backward on saidpivoted part only when the sliding part is drawn out, as set forth.

. 2. In a trunk of the kind described, a trayelevating lever comprisinga pivoted part having at its upper .end a socket 2, open at its back,and its sides provided with slots or channels, and an extensible part insaid socket having a pin to enter said slots or channels to permit thebending of saidextensible part with respect to the pivoted part,substantially as shown and described.

3. In a trunk, the combination with an end wall thereof, of a lever,comprising a pivoted part and a handled part sliding longitudinally uponand parallelto said pivoted part, said sliding part being adapted whendrawn out to be bentbackward from said pivoted part, twovertically-arranged pulleys on said end Wall near the rear corner of thetrunk, a horizontally-arranged pulley at the bottom of the trunk, a cordattached to said lever and passing over said pulleys, and a partition toinclose said lever and pulleys and. separate the same from the mainreceptacle of the trunk, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 236. day ofNovember,

PAUL H. SMITH. Witnesses:

GEO. M. FINOKEL, FRED O. RECTOR.

